Sixth Potter book on the way

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Author J. K. Rowling has announced that she has completed the
sixth Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood
Prince.

Rowling noted on her website that while she is pregnant with her
third child, she has had the time "needed to tinker with the
manuscript to my satisfaction and I am as happy as I have ever been
with the end result. I only hope you feel it was worth the wait
when you finally read it".

With the new Potter book almost certain to come out next year,
fans should be spared the seemingly interminable three-year wait
between Potter IV, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,
and Potter V, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,
which came out last year.

Rowling did not say whether the new book's length would top the
massive 870 pages of Order of the Phoenix.

More than 100 million copies of the fantasy series, which
debuted in 1997, are in print, and Order of the Phoenix
sold an astonishing 5 million copies within 24 hours of its
release. The first three Potter books have been made into hit
movies.

Rowling has said that one of her characters will not survive her
sixth book, but she refused to identify which character.

Potter himself is safe, for now. Rowling has said her teenage
hero will survive until the seventh and final book in the series,
but has refused to say whether he will reach adulthood.